Annette Yoshiko Reed
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
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And despite the fact that the department has large endowments and loyal alumni, and despite the fact that the department has brought in a lot of external funding. They can't change their minds in a few years and try to bring back something that took 150 years to build. It's devasting.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
And despite the fact that the department has large endowments and loyal alumni, and despite the fact that the department has brought in a lot of external funding. They can't change their minds in a few years and try to bring back something that took 150 years to build. It's devasting.
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True enough - but when they're both gone we'll only miss one of them.
Tony Judt was right.
Tony Judt was right.
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
True enough - but when they're both gone we'll only miss one of them.
Tony Judt was right.
Tony Judt was right.
Reposted by Annette Yoshiko Reed
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.